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UNITED sTATns PATENT ermee.

L. A. GEscHEIDT, oF NEW YORK, N. v.

PESSARY.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,556, dated May 9, 1848.

'prevent the falling of the womb, and to cure that defect by keeping itin its proper place; but all the modes employed eifect the object onlyin part, because the uterus is not forced back to its natural position,allowed to fall at least some inches from its true place uponcontrivances which from their hard nature cause irritation and produceinflammation. To obviate these inconveniences and to employ such meanswhich eHect both objects viz: the replacing of the uterus in its naturalposition and keeping it there by means of an instrument which causes noirritation, and which admits at the same time, injections upon thesuffering parts, whereby an ultimate cure can be effected, I haveinvented the pherysteron alluded'to, which consists of an elastic 'ringand an airtight bag, which is secured to the ring and which bag can beinflated in such a manner as to support the uterus.

The following is a full and exact description: The ring which I use, andupon which the airbag is secured is made of india rubber or of any othersuitable elastic substance; it exerts through its elastic nature auniform pressure upon the surrounding parts within the vagina, andcauses consequently less irritation, as a hard nonelastic body willproduce.

The ring A, see Figures 1 to 7 in the accompanying drawing, is eitheroval or of the ligure 8 as in Fig. 7 it is entirely covered on bothsides with india rubber cloth see Figs. 2 and 3 (sections) a, b; andwhere there is a strong secret-ion from the vagina or the uterus I maketwo holes in the surfaces of the oval to give egress to the secretionsee Figs. l, 4, and 7, c, ci. Upon one side of the oval or otherwiseshaped ring I place a short elastic bag of india rubber cloth or anyother suitable substances see Figs. l, 2, 3, and 5, B, which is fastenedto the surface of the ring A and its covering b,

in such a manner, as to make the bag perfectly airtight. In order toinflate this bag B, I pass a small elastic tube see Figs. l, 2, 3, 4, C,through the surfaces of the oval or ring a, b which opens into theairbag B, see sections Figs. 2 and 3. At the end of the small tube,which projects toward the opening of the vagina, is a small valve, whichcloses when the bag is inflated through the pressure of the air withinsee Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, D.` The bag lills the space of the vagina withoutdistending it, as Fig. 8 shows at e.

To apply injections I place over the aforesaid airbag B another similarelastic bag, of somewhat larger dimensions see Figs. 3, 4,6, E, which isfixed upon the oval in a similar manner as the above described bag B,this bag E may be provided with a number of holes on its upper end f;and in order to pass the injections up the bag and through the holes atf', I pass a small tube F, see Figs. 3 and 4, through the surfaces ofthe oval, large enough to admit the end of a syringe; the fluid wheninjected passes up the small tube' F and between the bag B and E and outat the holes at f upon'the suffering parts.

This instrument is applied in the following manner, after the oval hasbeen dipped into oil or any other lubricating matter, and after the airhas been forced out from the air bag, the instrument is placed betweenthe thumb and first finger, and passed up the vagina, in such a mannerthat the flat sides of the oval, with the air bag on one side, and thesmall tube on the other, are turned toward the hipbones, and when theinstrument has reached above the hipbones, it is brought in a horizontalposition, that the air bag B, see Fig. 8, comes toward the uterus, andthe small tubes downward. The oval A, see Fig. 8, with its greaterdiameter is placed upon the tuberosity of the iscliium when theinstrument has been .properly placed, the air bag B is inflated, bymeans of a long tube G, see Fig. 4, which is screwed on to the smalltube C with its valve D. In case the small tube C, with the valve Dcauses inconvenience a small elastic bag can be fastened over it.

Vhen the instrument is required to be removed, the air is allowed toescape from the bag B, which is effected by removing the valve D fromthe tube C.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letoval with an airtight bag, and asecond bag ters Patent, isto admit the application of inspections subl.The combination of an elastic ring or stantially herein described. ovalWith an airtight bag substantially here- ANTONY GESCHEIDT. 5 indescribed, which serves as supporter of Witnesses:

the uterus. B. STERN,

2. The combination of an elastic ring or yHERMAN FUNK.

